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 Oct 2024 Jill
Vanita vats
Sometimes
Come across a smile
From unfamiliar face
Before you could even smile
They left the place
But those smiles
are hanged on the
Door of heart
Gives a ringing chime
Which makes you smile
for that stranger's smile
 Oct 2024 Jill
CJ Sutherland
Lurking in the corner
Of the conference room
Whispers
A Tete-a-tête confabulate

Enough of the palaver
We have to move on
There are more
Impressive issues
To discuss

No need to
Extrapolate
Don’t make a fuss

Whatever happened
To the days of;
Honor
Virtuousness
integrity of probity

The political campaigns
has become mudslinging
*** for tat
We lost the sustenance of
Where we are about

Despite the
Moderators
Best efforts
Opposing sides
Still remain
Intransigent

Most people are
Betwixt between
A rock, and a hard case

Family Friends on
Opposing sides
In Retribution
They stoop to
Degradation

Some find
It difficult
To conform
To propriety

Struggling
to fit in
With Society

Perplexed
We are at
An impasse

An impression
Unsustained
Does not last

That is the dilemma!
growing up one of 8 children, my father encouraged us to use a larger vocabulary to improve our lexicon. We were taught to choose a word from the dictionary, and for the rest of the day to use that word correctly. Three syllable words were called five cent words, and we were given a bonus nickel. I had a jar full of nickels as a tribute to my furthered education and for my fathers inspiration. Later in life, he would smile when I would use a five cent word, and he would quietly hand me a nickel. Hence, our secret phrase was for a nickel I will.😎
These words were from past Webster’s Word of the Day

tête-à-tête ; in private, face-to-face Conversation
Confabulate; to chat, confer, gossip, gab, talk
Palaver ;unimportant or meaningless, deceptive
speech or discussion
Virtuousness; moral excellent righteousness
Integrity; adherence to a code of especially moral values and decency
Probity; adherence to the highest principles and ideas of uprightness
Intransigent; A person who refuses to compromise or abandon, and often extreme position or attitude or a point of view that shows a kind of stubbornness
Betwixt; in the middle
Retribution; Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act
Degradation; a condition or process of degrading, or to be degraded humiliated shame
Propriete Quality of conforming to conventional acceptance, standards of behavior, or morals
Perplexed; you feel baffled, very puzzled, confused
 Oct 2024 Jill
William J Donovan
You better get
   your makeup kit
   make the fear
   last night
   disappear.
   wear your shades
   'til the black eye fades
   people just stop asking
   when shopping at the IGA
   repair the fist holes
   in walls and doors
   and in your heart.
 Oct 2024 Jill
Donall Dempsey
OVER YOU

A bust
of Beethoven

has fallen

in love with
a tiny statuette

of the Venus
De Milo

who has also
lost her head.

Beethoven with his
shattered hair

admires what is there
of her body

Christ!
with his left arm

snapped off
comes between them

keeping them apart.

Christianity
is harsh.

I pass & leave them
to their broken hearts.

Buy an egg
timer

made of brass

from a man
who looks like

a monkey
even more

than a monkey
do.

I turn the sands
of time

upside down
& then again

upside down
again

and with much fuss
catch the packed bus

in the non-stop
rain.

Home again
I boil an egg

that is neither
hard nor soft

hum Tchaikovsky
as I chew burnt toast

and cry

over you.
 Oct 2024 Jill
Vanita vats
After so many days
I read your poems
With heart and mind in line
Not to presume and assume
Reading line by line
Opening layer by layer
To enjoy each bite
To reveal every ride
To appreciate those threads
With which woven
Each Beautiful piece of write
Today in morning I read Atul Kaushal's poems
I really enjoyed.
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